Water-distilling apparatus.



No. 732,831. PATENTED JULY 7, 19013. J.M. GOFFMAN.

WATER DISTlLLING APPARATUS.

ArPLIoATIoN FILED. 001230. 1902.

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PATEN'TED JULY 7 mmcaPEMAN. "WATER DISTILLING APPARATUS.

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UNITED STATESI n Patented July 7', 190g.

PATENT i OFFICE. l

JESSE MONROE. COFFMAN, OF MONTALVO, CALIFORNIA.

WATER-DISTILLING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 732,831, dated July 7, 1903.

Application iled OctoberwSO, 1902. Serial No. 129,451. (No model.) q

T aZZ whom it may concern.: Be it known that 1, JESSE MONROE COFF- MAN, a citizen of the United States; residing at Montalvo, in the county ot Ventura and State of California, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Water-Distilling- Apparatus; and I do declare thefollowing to invention, such as will enable others skilled l lo in the artto Which it appertains to make and 'n healthful.

be a full, clear, and exact description of the use the same. y

My invention is an improved water-distilling apparatus especially adapted for domestic purposes; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and tire-box of a range, the latter being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a detail elevation, partly in section, ot' the purifier and condenser-coil. Fig. 3 is a detail longitudinal sectional view of the separator; and Fig. 4 is a detailtop plan view'of the same, partly in section.

In the embodiment of4 my invention here shown I provide a heating-coil1, in which the water is boiled, which heating-coilis disposed in one sideof the fire-box of a stove or range,

n so that the same is heatedby the fire used for ordinary cooking purposes. A reservoir 2-or other source of Water, which is here shown as a tank supported ata suitable elevation above the heating-coil, is connected tothe latter by a feed-pipe 3. `In practice the tank or reservoir sho'uld be provided with a Water-gage,

as here shown, and with a float-valve to pre` ventthe same from being overiiowed. A steam-pipe 4leads from the heating coil or boiler to a separator 5. This separator is a chamber of enlarged capacity as compared With the steam-pipe 4 and is preferably of the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4, having a lateral prolongation 6.on its rear side directly opposite the opening in the frontV side thereof with which the steam-pipe 4 communicates. The separator is also preferably provided on its lower side with a vertically-depending prolongation 7, to which is coupled a Water-return pipe 8, the latter serving to return water from the separator to the feed end of the heating coil or boiler 1. A steam-pipe 9 leads from the up per side of `the separator and communicates with a condensing-coil 10. In practice the condensing-coil is disposed in the outer air, but the same should be shielded from the direct rays of the sun. A service-pipe l1 leads from the condensing-coil into the house. I also provide a vertically-disposed pipe 12, which rises from the steam-pipe 9 at the point Where the latter is coupled to the condensingcoil, and the said pipe 12 is provided at its upper end with a cap 1.3, forming a closure therefor, which cap is provided with an ori' tice 14, in practice about one thirty-second of an inch in diameter, for the escape of gases arising from the `presence of organicmatter in the Water. These gases being lighter than the steam separate from the latter at the base of the purifier and escape through the opening 14, while the steam passes from pipe 9 into the coil 10 in the outer air, in which coil the steam is condensed, the resulting distilled Water being fed from the condensing-coil to the service-pipe 1l.l

The commingled steam and water are discharged from the boiler or the heating-coil 1 through the pipe 4 into the separator. The construction and capacity of the latter are such as to cause the steam to separate from the Water, the latter returning through thepipe `8 tothe feed end of the coil 1 and the steam passing from the separator `up through the pipe 9, as hereinbefore stated. l

To enable the apparatus to be drained,I

provide a draW-o faucet 15, which is here shown as coupled to the Water-supply pipe 3. In practice the reservoir may be supplied from'the Waterworks when the apparatus is used'in a city; otherwise the reservoir may be filled in any suitable manner.

p' ber having a lateral extension 6 and a depending extension 7, a steam-pipe leading from the boiler to the separator and discharging commingled steam and Water into the latter at a point oppositethe lateral extension, a water-return pipe leading from the depending extension 7 of the separating-chamber back to the boiler, a condenser, and a steampipe leading from the upper portion of the separating-chamber to the condenser,substan tially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JESSE MONROE COFFMAN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES MORRILL, W. I. RICE. 

